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  Butterfly, Butterfly
  Your name should be Flutterby.
  Lest others discover,
  You don't contain butter,
  In fact you taste like shit.

I'm diagnosed as ASD, and a psych has said I'm almost certainly ADHD but untestable. I have an unusually acute visual memory - I can accurately describe the room I was in while Churchill's funeral was on TV, when I was less than 3 years old. Most university exams were effectively open book because I could recall the pages I'd read as images.

I'm not convinced all the stereotypes about ASD/ADHD superpowers are true myself. And yes, autism super skills don't equate to commercial success for most of us.

CBN or CBD? Does cannabidiene have an effect other than giving you a headache? Cannabidiol is what my medical provider provides with THC.

Before I started on MMJ I slept in 2 hour shifts, every 12 hours or so, due to neuropathic pain. Now I sleep for 8 hours - once I get to sleep. It seems that daily use does make it a bit harder to fall asleep (racing mind?) but at least I'm not just getting the bare minimum anymore.

Note that taking CBD reduces the negative effects of THC use, at the cost of less stoned. If using for medical reasons that's not a big deal. If recreational use it probably is.

Pretty sure there's a bike rack in every town with a school. Your 'Almost*' has towns like Lismore (2 public high schools), Casino (1) and Murwillumbah (2 schools and bike rack on main street) all without racks

I used to get monthly nerve block injections into my neck, which gave 3 days that I didn't have nerve pain. This was enough to gain some strength.

I was once told "You're in the human wastebasket now" as I was put in a "bucket" of neuropathy. After 10 years this was refined to "Right Brachial Plexopathy with neuropathia, exhibiting as atypical Complex Regional Pain Syndrome type II". This is no more helpful than "neuropathy" most of the time.

I'm still in the neuropathy bucket. Haven't bothered trying to take opiods for my chronic pain for years, because only fentanyl works.

Bucket diagnoses are better than the uncertainty of "WTF is wrong with me".

I remember a position advertised in 1995 for a Java programmer with 6 years experience in Enterprise Class Java development.

Named after a white whale... what could possibly go wrong?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migaloo

As I understand it, the formant is the difference between the interval from the harmonic series, and the interval using whatever temperment you're in. Piano-notes are in equal temperment. String players, and some wind instruments allow you to play the "in-between" notes selectively (like a true major third, unlike the horrid thing a equal temperment produces) giving you a powerful emotional tool

Is "extreme depression" a clinical term? I've heard of Major Depression, Chronic Depression, Clinical Depression.

Similarly, I'd been on 6 different Tricyclics, SSRI and SNRI until I met my current meds. These ones (venlafaxine) work for me.

As a resident of Queensland, Australia, why do people _choose_ to live in lands of ice and snow? So much of the world seems quite horrid to my sub-tropical habituated self.

As a user of this sort of technology, I'm not so sure that the OSS model is best. My ICD uses proper (certified) implementations of crypto to minimise biohacking. How is the OSS supply chain more secure than propriety, given the regular python/php/etc malware in source repositories?

Thing is, get the corner cases wrong and you're shocking the hell out of people every 10 seconds or so. Or worse.

The best comment I ever saw was in a body-corporate-management suite I maintained for a short while.

The comment was at the beginning of a 200 000 line pascal program. It was the only comment in the file.

It advised anyone being approached to maintain it to at least double their quote, as the code used 1 and 2 letter names for variables, constants, functions and procedures. It also advised that the same variables were used for multiple purposes, and that maintaining it was a total nightmare.

The comment was correct. The only variable name that made any sense was l (el, not one), which always held the current line the cursor was on. I was thrilled when I worked out what l (el) did.

-- added clarification due to fonts that make l look like I or 1

I remember the front page of The Sun showing a VW sailing down Swanston St in the Melbourne CBD in 1972 during a flash flood. I was 10yo and thought it was brilliant.

School is a very strange place for the exceptionally gifted student, even moreso if neurodiverse. The student can get 100% on tests and essays with ease, yet cannot understand basic human interactions.

From the perspective of an autistic, ex-teacher who had his IQ measured as "somewhere over 170". I probably have ADHD as well, but a psychiatrist friend says diagnosis fails with people with ridiculously high IQs.

BTW, high IQ = good at solving certain kinds of problem, not a measure of the quality of a person.

I've had quite a lot of medical treatments, due to terrible luck and universal health care.

In my experience (3 continents, 6 countries) medical training does not prepare students for people.

For people with communication issues, sensory issues or disability it has to be even worse.

Pretty sure the Tolkien Estate is managed by Saul Zaentz, and he was a fool to try to sue him. He has a _very_ long record of defending the IP very very strenuously.

12:01 AM on the 12th of the 12th. Coincidences are cool

I think Edoras/Rohan might be a reference to Breton Celtic horse culture. The Lords of Brittany, the House of Rohan, traced their ancestry to Conan Meriadoc.

In Lotr, Meriadoc Brandybuck is the halfling who swears allegiance to King Theoden of Rohan in Edoras.

The analogy doesn't go too far though, as the Rohirrim came from the vales of Anduin, near the Grey Mountains, while Conan's settlement, if it happened, was on return from defeat outside Rome. He was from Wales before that.

Pedantic pedantic: The Druedain are the Pukel Men, the Wild Men, or Woses. They are found in the White Mountains in LOTR, and there were probably remnants in Eryn Vorn. They are also mentioned in The Silmarillion.

They are very distantly related to the Dunedain, being associated with the 3rd house of the Edain, and Beor the Old.

Link sends me into a captcha loop.

Hmmm... only read the abstract, but the idea that indigenous australians _in general_ were starving pre-colonisation is demonstrably false, just consider the eel farms and factories in Victoria

CPY people in central Australia practice subincision as a manhood ritual. In order to concieve they tie the penis together with their wives' hair. They only did/do this in times of plenty though. Otherwise the subincision means semen just dribbles down the scrotum, and not into the wife. Seems they knew what went where.

The spirit of a new embryo came from a waterhole, with the help of the Rainbow Serpent. But they knew where babies came from.

Spitting/throwing seeds of fruit on the ground is a lot like planting them.

I know of no evidence that Indigenous Australians were so hungry that they were only sporadically fertile. Source?

When I was younger and rode motorcycles with my friends, we cast derision on the new trend of "Jesus Box" design, where any electrical issue meant buying a new, expensive black box that only Jesus could fix. No one with self respect would buy one, what if something failed out bush?

A decade later we all realised that the new bikes were insanely reliable, and never had random electrical issues in the rain.

In contrast, the 0872 postcode in Australia covers over a million square kilometers.

Perhaps the title should mention this is primarily about Rust, and not thread-per-core in general, which would be interesting.

No mention of the DecSystem-10 or 20. I loved TOPS-20. How those machines ran so well with so many users and so little ram is a lesson in efficiency.

I recall seeing that there was a 14 000 year old dear scapula found in China that had the "simple proof" diagram engraved on it. The article seems to say that Pythagoras' Theorem was discovered by the Mesopotamians, but neglects mentioning it may be _much_ older.

Someone above commented that just by building ancient peoples would have discovered this relationship.